… Morgestraich!
The city lights go out at 4 am sharp. From the many small alleys and larger side streets cliques of masked drummers and fifer’s march towards the Market Square in Basel. Each clique is lead by a huge lantern that shows this year’s motif. Read about this incredible event: Fasnacht in Basel.
It’s three days, of madness, pageantry, colour, tradition, fun. I’m watching this from here and my eyes tear up… Homesick. I want to be there so badly.
Live cams are sprinkled throughout the downtown core. For the next 3 days and nights these cameras will record the event.
I’ll be watching!
… others warned us!
“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.”
“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.” Plato (427 – 347 BC)
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Sun Tzu (400 – 320 BC)
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
“Nothing but a fiery ordeal, out of which humanity will emerge, chastened and prepared, can succeed in implanting that sense of responsibility which the leaders of a newborn age must arise to shoulder…” Bahá’u’lláh (1817 – 1892)
